ERIC SCHMUTZ

Eric Schmutz

Contact Info

Drop by my office (266 Korman) anytime. No appointment is necessary.
To be sure of finding me (I am not always in my office), you might prefer to
@drexel.edu email Eric.Jonathan.Schmutz to arrange a meeting time.

 
Address:
Mathematics Department
266 Korman Building
Drexel University
Philadelphia, 19104

Courses

Math 311 Probability and Statistics I

Research

My research interests are in discrete mathematics, including probabilistic methods, asymptotic enumeration, and some topics in number theory.

Selected papers.
- Part Products of S-Restrcted Compositions,
  with Caroline Shapcott, to appear in AADM.
- Period Lengths for Iterated Functions
  Combinatorics, Probability, and Computing 20,(2011), 289–298.
- Rational Points on the Unit Sphere
  Centr.Eur.J.Math 6 (2008) 482-487.
- The Expected Order of a Random Unitary Matrix ,
  Journal of Group Theory, 11 (4), 2008.
- Splitting Fields for Characteristic Polynomials of Matrices with Entries in a Finite Field,
  Finite Fields Appl. 14(1) (2008), 250--257.
- Limit distribution for the maximum degree of a random recursive tree,
  with William M.Y.Goh, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 142 (1) (2002), 61--82.
- The Number of Distinct Part Sizes in a Random Partition ,
  with William M.Y.Goh , Journal of Combinatorial Theory Ser A. 69 (1995) 149-158.
- How Random is the Characteristic Polynomial of a Random Matrix?,
  with Jennie C. Hansen, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 114(3) (1993), 507--515.
- Gap Free Set Partitions ,
  with William M.Y.Goh Random Structures and Algorithms 3(1) (1992), 9--18.
- Carmichaels Lambda Function
  with Paul Erdos and Carl Pomerance, Acta Arith. 58 (1991), no. 4, 363--385.
- The Expected Order of a Random Permutation
  with William M.Y.Goh, Bull. London Math. Soc. 23(1) (1991), 34--42.